August 6, 2022 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
- Current and past Vallejo Piecemakers are all invited for our 35th Anniversary celebration.
- More details to come…
July 16, 2022 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
- Admission is $20/person if purchased in advance. $25/person on the day of the game. Limited to 100 players.
- Door prizes and vendors.
- Wear something tropical to get an extra raffle ticket.
- More information to come.
July 2, 2022 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Hello Piecemakers!
The doors to the FDC will be open at 9am, so please come early to get your social time in before the meeting begins at 10:00am. The agenda is attached to print out and bring with you.
Before the meeting, see the following people as you settle in:
- Visiting guild – Valley Quilt Guild (Marysville/Yuba City) will be selling tickets for their Opp Quilt
- Fat Quarter Exchange / Evelyn M – Bright colors requested
- BOM Blocks / Linda & Mary – Christmas Ribbons
- Monthly fundraiser baskets / Virginia – bring your dollars & buy a chance!
Don’t forget your Show & Tell items to share.
After the meeting, Wendy and her crew of Bunco basket magicians will be putting them together and wrapping them up. Contact Wendy if you have items to add to the baskets. With all this activity happening, do feel free to bring your machine in for open sew time.
See you soon!
June 4, 2022 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
- Linda Wagner will join our meeting to tell us about her upcoming “Ruler/Mat Multi-Pocketed Tote Bag” class. Sign up before June, as there will be a bit of homework before the class.
- Bunco Basket workshop after the meeting. Help Wendy and the Bunco crew set up baskets for Bunco.
- More details to come…
May 7, 2022 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
The doors to the FDC will be open at 9am, so please come early to get your social time in before the meeting begins at 10:00am.
There will be a mini fabric sale, so come early to get something for your stash.
Before the meeting, see the following people as you settle in:
- Visiting guild – Moonlight Quilters of Sonoma will be selling tickets for their Opp Quilt
- Fat Quarter Exchange / Evelyn – prints requested
- BOM Blocks / Mary – Sunshine Stars to turn in
- Opp Quilt ’22 Tickets / Kris – pick up your tickets before or after the meeting
- 2022 Member Directory booklet / Marci
Don’t forget your Show & Tell items to share. Please find the agenda (in the Downloads page) to print out and bring with you.
Those registered for the Exploding Heart Class, bring your gear so we can get started on part 1 of the class after the meeting and rearranging the room.
We will not be having a guild-wide lunch, but something will be provided to the class participants during the room changeover at noon.
April 9, 2022 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Due to the Bunco Fundraiser being moved to July we are using this Saturday, April 9th (the date we originally reserved the FDC for Bunco) to hold a Baby Quilt Work Party. It is short notice, we know, but we wanted to take advantage of the reservation and help our Wednesday Ladies finish some quilts for our community outreach. We had to cancel our plans for a Baby Quilt Work Party in February due to the FDC closure at the time.
So for this Saturday, we will not be sewing the tops from kits; we have plenty on hand. The focus is completing the quilts. Steps to do this are:
- Pressing the fabric
- Sandwiching tops with batting and backing
- Pinning
- Sewing around the edges (inside out)
- Turning out
- Tying with yarn
- Topstitching
- Sewing labels on
We have a number of quilts that already are sandwiched so they need the latter steps.
We will have 2-3 ironing boards and irons set up.
If you want to do a step involving sewing and you don’t want to bring your machine, that’s okay. We will have 5-6 machines on hand that you can use.
We will have some pins, but you can bring your own if you prefer.
Those who wish to tie should bring a large eye needle, curved needle, or upholstery needle. We will have a few on hand. We have yarn.
There will be coffee/tea and a simple lunch will be provided – a “potato bar” – so we need an approximate headcount for food.
Please respond if you will be joining us on Saturday. Doors open at 9am but if you are coming later, just let us know when you expect to be there.
We hope to see you there!
Given the amount of space needed for the groupings of tables for the various stations, we ask that there is no “open sew” at this event.
Excerpt from The Vallejo Times-Herald, April 21, 2020
By Richard Freeman
Michelle Savoy would stop short of saying she and her fellow Vallejo Piecemakers colleagues are the 2020 version of Rosie the Riveter, the iconic symbol of women workers during World War II.However, while this enemy — COVID-19 — is invisible, the Piecemakers’ contributions surely aren’t. Not when this group of a dozen women has churned…
Excerpt from The Vallejo Times-Herald, February 2, 2019
by Richard Freedman
Rosie the Riveter she’s not. Rosie the Quilter? Undoubtedly.
Rosie Rockwood, whose labor of love has warmed the hearts and bodies of hundreds of souls through the years, presented six colorful quilts to Gretchen Shilts of Solano/Napa Habitat for Humanity at the Florence Douglas Center on Saturday.
The full-sized quilts will find a home with a yet-earmarked disabled veteran and family selected for a new Habitat for Humanity home, Shilts said, joyfully accepting the donation at the end of the monthly Vallejo Piecemakers meeting.
“It takes a lot of work” for each quilt, Shilts acknowledged. “And the care and skill is even more special with the love they’re made with.”…
Excerpt from The Vallejo Times-Herald, January 6, 2018
By Katy St. Clair
A quilt is a work of art that also wraps you in a hug. By that token, people have been stitching together pieces of fabric to make homewares or gifts of warmth since the early times.
Needlework can be a solitary hobby, so it stands to reason that groups would form to sew together, compare designs and maybe even show off a little.
Vallejo has its own quilting guild known as the Piecemakers, and at nearly 100 members, it’s certainly one of the most active “sewing circles” in the area.
“I love to quilt, love to sew,” said member Pat Walling. “I embroider now, too. I’ve started a cottage industry, really. Kind of helps out. You know, when you’re a senior citizen, every little bit helps.”…
Read more:
https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2018/01/06/vallejos-quilting-guild-has-nearly-100-members/
Excerpt from The Vallejo Times-Herald, October 27, 2017
By Richard Freeman
Sometimes, it’s the simple things.
A meal, for sure. And, as the Vallejo Piecemakers Quilt Guild realized, a place mat.
Since earlier this year, the Piecemakers have churned out roughly 700 place mats for Meals on Wheels recipients in south Solano County, with sights set on seniors in Fairfield and Vacaville.
And that makes Ann Stevens — a Meals on Wheels board member and Vallejo Piecemakers participant — one happy camper. Rather, quilter…
Read more:
https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2017/10/27/vallejo-quilters-roll-out-the-mats-for-meals-on-wheels/